- Genre:social science
- Sub-genre:Criminology
- Language:English
- Pages:355
- eBook ISBN:9781483531311
Book details
Overview
A teacher combats harassment from correctional officers and jumbles of red tape from a succession of managers while trying to deliver correspondence courses to adults in a maximum security detention centre.
Ghi Dean won a silver medal for excellence in writing for Deprived of a Fighting Chance.
Description
By Eduardo Aduna for Readers’ Favorite (5 stars)
Nelson Mandela once said that a nation should not be judged by how it treats
its highest citizens, but its lowest ones. Ghi Dean's novel shows us how
one of the "advanced" countries in the world deals with its prisoners
-and it's not a pretty sight. Rehabilitation clashes with punishment and
inmates are given intermittent rays of hope while being stuck in an endless
cycle of hopelessness and desolation. Ghi Dean's experiences were written
with such emotional frankness that I found myself commiserating with her
frustrations and celebrating with her whenever she encounters tiny triumphs.